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Synopsis

Of the #1 New York Times bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, “Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters.”

Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I’d never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue.

The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He’d been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He’d been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Millhone’s name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him.

Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes.

But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange linkages begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey literally finds the key to his identity. “And just like that,” she says, “the lid to Pandora’s box flew open. It would take me another day before I understood how many imps had been freed, but for the moment, I was inordinately pleased with myself.”

In this multilayered tale, the surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised.

W is for . . . wanderer . . . worthless . . . wronged . . .

W is for wasted.

Sue Grafton|Judy Kaye

About Sue Grafton

Sue Grafton first introduced Kinsey Millhone in the Alphabet Series in 1982 and since then, both writer and heroine have become icons. Ms. Grafton is a writer who consistently breaks the bonds of genre while never writing the same book twice. Ms. Grafton is also a fan of her work on audio, saying that she's "acquired hundreds of new converts to the books from people who hear them first on cd." She continued to say that audiobooks are a "wonderful form of literary cross-pollination and a great way to expand the audience for this series." Ms. Grafton lives in Montecito, California, and Louisville, Kentucky.

About Judy Kaye

Judy Kaye received the Tony Award® for her performance in The Phantom of the Opera and was nominated for two other Tony® awards: for her portrayal of Rosie in Mamma Mia, the ABBA musical, and her starring role as the singer Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir. She has performed with such opera companies and orchestras as the New York City Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra.